Millions of civilians
remain trapped by violent conflict in Syria and negotiations to protect
residents are critical, warns United Nations humanitarian adviser Jan
Egeland. "The notion that it is ebbing, this war, is completely
wrong. This war is on and it's still in the midst of the civilian
population," he says.

In its annual Global Trends report,
UNHCR reported that conflict and persecution in countries including the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan and Myanmar had driven
worldwide forced displacement to a record high for the fifth year in a
row.

Over half of the world's 25.4 million refugees are
children. Many will spend their entire childhoods away from
home, sometimes separated from their families.

A gift of just $25 to UNA-USA's Adopt-A-Future
initiative provides school supplies and clothing for a refugee child to
enroll in school. Even better? When you give online today,
your donation will be distributed to help children go to school in the
60 UN Refugee Agency schools in the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps in
Kenya. Your donation will also be MATCHED through the Educate a Child
Fund of Her Highness Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser of Qatar and other
philanthropic partners and, doubling the impact of the initiative.

Your contribution will be used to:✔ Purchase
school supplies✔
Provide clothing to a refugee child✔ Train
teachers to support children affected by trauma✔ Give students
a chance to have a brighter future, both academically and emotionally

To get a former refugee’s perspective on how your
donation is providing the much needed assistance to camps like
Kakuma, read Peter Magai Bul’s
story.

This is about real girls and boys who
desperately need our help right now. YOU can make the world a better
place for these children with your simple act of kindness.Give today.

Sincerely,

Rachel Bowen Pittman

Senior Director, Membership & Programs, UNA-USA

To learn more
about the Adopt-A-Future campaign and see how else you can help
refugees, click here.

Today, on our southern
border, the children of asylum seekers are being pried from their parents’
arms and forced into camps.

Parents who’ve fled trauma
and persecution to seek refuge in America will instead be forced to endure
the unfathomable terror of not knowing if they will ever see their children
again.

What the Trump administration
is doing to these families is barbaric. As Jews, it’s impossible not to see
echoes of our history.

And while the focus of our
work remains US policy toward the Middle East, we must also stand up and
defend our values at home.

As Jews, it’s impossible to
remain silent.

That's why, over the past few
weeks, J Street has joined with a wide spectrum of Jewish groups --
including the national movements of every major Jewish denomination -- to
stand up against family separation.

Last month, Trump nominated anti-immigrant extremist Ronald
Mortensen to oversee refugee resettlement in the U.S. as Assistant Secretary of
State for the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM). A xenophobic
racist like Mortensen should not be the top diplomat overseeing U.S. policies
towards the millions of people uprooted by humanitarian crises across the
world.

Next month, the Senate will vote on whether to confirm Mortensen
in this dangerous position. And we can block him.

Already, there is bipartisan pressure to block Mortensen’s
nomination. If we put enough pressure on our Senators right now, we can stop
Mortensen and start to break apart the racist infrastructure upholding the
militarized and barricaded borders of this country.

Mortensen literally gets paid to be a white supremacist. He works
for a far-right, anti-immigrant hate group and spews rhetoric attacking
immigrants. What’s more, confirming Mortensen would add yet another bigot to a
Trump administration already stacked with anti-migrant and anti-Muslim
extremists, from Stephen Miller to Mike Pompeo.

Migration is a human right. The world is facing the worst
refugee crisis since World War II — many of whom are fleeing wars caused by the
United States’ failed violence-first foreign policy and natural disasters
fueled by U.S.-driven climate change —and yet the United States is currently
at the lowest refugee resettlement goals in history.

This is no accident. From the Trump administration’s refugee
bans disguised as “extreme vetting,” to the Muslim ban, to the inhumane policy
of separating migrant kids from their families, Trump’s attacks on refugees are
part and parcel of his racist, anti-immigrant agenda and systematic effort to
dismantle U.S. refugee resettlement and other immigration relief programs.

On this day and every day, let’s exercise true solidarity with
refugees on the frontlines of war, climate catastrophe, social and economic
inequalities, and violence. Not just because militarism is a core root cause of
the modern-day refugee crisis, but because all humans, especially those fleeing
their homes, have the right to safety, shelter and refuge, and the U.S. has an
obligation to provide it. Refugees already face devastating obstacles in the
pursuit of safety. We can’t allow Mortensen to make this pursuit impossible.